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  • A neanderthal skull. ( Dr. Mike Baxter, Wikimedia Commons)
    Neanderthals and Fertility
    Victoria Clare
    Some of us have Neanderthal genes, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's research showing that women with a certain gene variant, or allele, inherited from Neanderthals are more fertile than women without it, and that 15 to 20 percent of women in Europe have it.